Parse Function: Extra characters in string after using memcpy

Question

My parse function works for the root directory, but for subsequent requests for, say, cat.jpg, the memcpy function seems to copy an extra \220 into both requesttarget and HTTPversion (so, for instance, the HTTPversion string would read "HTTP/1.1\220" instead of simply "HTTP/1.1"). I can't figure out why this is. Here is the code for the parse function.

bool parse(const char* line, char* abs_path, char* query)
{
char* method = NULL;
char* requesttarget = NULL;
char* HTTPversion = NULL;

char* position = strchr(line, ' ');
method = malloc(strlen(line) - strlen(position));
strncpy(method, line, strlen(line) - strlen(position));

//check if method is GET
if(strcmp(method, "GET") != 0)
{
    //respond 405 Method Not Allowed
    error(405);
    return false;
}

//check for more than one space after method
char* space = " ";
if(strcmp(position + 1, space) == 0)
{
    error(501);
    free(method);
    return false;
}

char* position1 = strchr((position + 1), ' ');
requesttarget = malloc(strlen(position) - strlen(position1) - 1);
memcpy(requesttarget, (position + 1), (strlen(position) - strlen(position1) - 1));

//break up requesttarget into absolute path and query
char* questionmark = strchr(requesttarget, '?');

if(questionmark != NULL)
{
    strncpy(abs_path, requesttarget, strlen(requesttarget) - strlen(questionmark));
    strcpy(query, questionmark);
}

else if(questionmark == NULL)
{
    strcpy(abs_path, requesttarget);
    query[0] = '\0';
}

//check that request target begins with /
if(requesttarget[0] != '/')
{
    free(method);
    //respond with 501 Not Implemented
    error(501);
    free(requesttarget);
    free(method);
    return false;
}  

//check that request target does not contain "
if(strchr(requesttarget, '"') != NULL)
{
    free(method);
    //respond with 400 Bad Request
    error(400);
    free(requesttarget);
    return false;
}

if(strcmp(position1 + 1, " ") == 0)
{
    error(501);
    free(requesttarget);
    free(method);
    return false;
}


HTTPversion = malloc(strlen(position1) - strlen("\r\n") - 1);
memcpy(HTTPversion, position1 + 1, strlen(position1) - strlen("\r\n") - 1);

size_t n = 8;
if(strncmp(HTTPversion, "HTTP/1.1", n) != 0)
{
    //respond 505 HTTP Version Not Supported
    error(505);
    free(requesttarget);
    free(method);
    free(HTTPversion);
    return false;
}

free(requesttarget);
free(method);
free(HTTPversion);
return true;
}

Answer 1

so... no, that's not the case, your problem comes from other areas... ready? OK... first, uhm, first, when mallocing for method, you only do for three chars, forgetting the \0. also, I would recommend using calloc in place of malloc, to stop the compiler shouting about uninitialised values. the strncpy after that is OK. Then next, when mallocing for request target, same problem, scrap the -1, again, calloc. And lastly, when getting the query, the ? shouldn't be included, I guess u know how to scrap it as well. Otherwise, nice code... Good luck